The Shield of Silence: How Power Perpetuates a Culture of Harassment and Bullying in the Workplace looks at the culture of the workplace and its impact on women and other groups who bear the impact of sexual harassment, bullying, lewd and inappropriate remarks, and other behaviors that can negatively impact the experiences of people each day.
African American Women In Defense of Ourselves, New York Times, 1992, a response to the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings by African American women.
In 1977, Radical America had a special issue on sexual harassment, including two important essays:
Linda Gordon, The Politics of Sexual Harassment
Alliance Against Sexual Harassment, Organizing Against Sexual Harassment
Ithaca-based Working Women United Institute published a newsletter from 1975 to 1976 called WWU Labor Pains, in which they document their organizing work against sexual harassment.
This 1977 brochure produced by the Boston-based Alliance Against Sexual Coercion, titled “Sexual Harassment at the Workplace,” was an early articulation of the harms caused by sexual harassment and how to respond.
By looking at the rate and types of sexual harassment experienced by current and former restaurant workers through national surveys and rigorous analysis, the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United and Forward Together provide the most accurate picture to date of sexual harassment in the restaurant industry in The Glass Floor: Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry.
“In the waning months of 2017, Americans endured an almost daily barrage of news reports describing sexual harassment by powerful men in entertainment, media, politics and law. While sexual harassment had been headline news before — most notably, during the 1991 Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas debacle — never had so many victims joined hands and come forward demanding change. The media spotlight presented a tremendous opportunity to reframe sexual harassment from an individual, personal and idiosyncratic instance of sexual desire to a common abuse of gender and economic power affecting millions of working women and men on a daily basis…”
Crain, Marion G. and Matheny, Kenneth, Sexual Harassment and Solidarity (March 26, 2018). George Washington Law Review, Forthcoming; Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-03-04.
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